From: Marc MERLIN <marc@merlins.org>
To: Cao jin <caoj.fnst@cn.fujitsu.com>
Cc: linux-btrfs@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Question about "btrfs send/receive"
Date: Tue, 23 Jun 2015 20:24:23 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20150624032423.GH20517@merlins.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <5589078B.2090806@cn.fujitsu.com>
On Tue, Jun 23, 2015 at 03:15:23PM +0800, Cao jin wrote:
> Hi all,
> I am considering implement the btrfs send/receive command in
> libguestfs(http://libguestfs.org/), and found that incremental send
> seems pretty complicated. So my questions is:
> 1. What is the most usually usage of btrfs send/receive?
> 2. Does it make sense to implement the simplest form?
> $ btrfs send -f sent_file subvol
Sure, have a look at this:
http://marc.merlins.org/perso/btrfs/2014-03.html#Btrfs-Tips_-Doing-Fast-Incremental-Backups-With-Btrfs-Send-and-Receive
Cheers,
Marc
--
"A mouse is a device used to point at the xterm you want to type in" - A.S.R.
Microsoft is to operating systems ....
.... what McDonalds is to gourmet cooking
Home page: http://marc.merlins.org/
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2015-06-24 3:24 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2015-06-23 7:15 Question about "btrfs send/receive" Cao jin
2015-06-24 3:24 ` Marc MERLIN [this message]
2015-06-24 3:40 ` Cao jin
2015-06-24 4:21 ` Marc MERLIN
Reply instructions:
You may reply publicly to this message via plain-text email
using any one of the following methods:
* Save the following mbox file, import it into your mail client,
and reply-to-all from there: mbox
Avoid top-posting and favor interleaved quoting:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Posting_style#Interleaved_style
* Reply using the --to, --cc, and --in-reply-to
switches of git-send-email(1):
git send-email \
--in-reply-to=20150624032423.GH20517@merlins.org \
--to=marc@merlins.org \
--cc=caoj.fnst@cn.fujitsu.com \
--cc=linux-btrfs@vger.kernel.org \
/path/to/YOUR_REPLY
https://kernel.org/pub/software/scm/git/docs/git-send-email.html
* If your mail client supports setting the In-Reply-To header
via mailto: links, try the mailto: link
Be sure your reply has a Subject: header at the top and a blank line
before the message body.
This is an external index of several public inboxes,
see mirroring instructions on how to clone and mirror
all data and code used by this external index.